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Ms. Cao in Beijing suddenly found that sister Zhu, who does cleaning work at her home, is a “treasure”: she is not only an on-the-job cleaner in a small private company. She clocks in to the company from nine to five every day, but also regularly cleans three families three nights a week. Moreover, since last month, she has another weekend job - “taking orders” as a family education instructor.

“Sister Zhu has worked in my house for several years. In my impression, she has only a junior high school degree. Sister Zhu told me that she won the certificate after listening to several classes and taking the exam twice on the Internet.” “I’m really shocked,” Ms. Cao said

Ms. Cao was shocked not only by sister Zhu’s junior high school education, but by the combination of several elements such as “junior high school education”, “several online classes” and “business with certificate”.

In recent days, the word “family education refers to tutor” has a high exposure. On the one hand, many public figures have pushed against the official account of the “golden rice bowl” with “promising occupation prospects”, “thousands of yuan in salary and hundreds of thousands of salaries per year” in the next five years. On the other hand, many media have exposed the “fishy” behind the training and research of tutors in family education.

So, what kind of existence is the tutor certificate of family education? Is there a threshold for entry? Is there any deep-seated reason behind the research fever? The reporter of China Youth Daily · China Youth Network interviewed a number of researchers and experts to analyze this phenomenon.

Registration ≈ zero threshold

In recent years, the whole society has paid more attention to family education. Especially since this year, the family education promotion law has been officially implemented. Family education has also risen from family affairs to state affairs. Many parents urgently need family education guidance. Therefore, the training and textual research of family education instructors have sprung up one after another. So, who has the ability to “guide”? Is there a minimum requirement for “mentoring”?

With the same doubts as Ms. Cao, the reporter of China Youth Daily zhongqing.com searched a number of research and registration institutions of family education instructors on the Internet.

The reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com found that many family education refers to that tutor training institutions have set a threshold for examiners to enter the door, and many institutions clearly write in the text introduction: college degree or above can apply for the examination.

What happens if the candidate’s educational background does not meet the standard?

The reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com randomly opened the web page of an institution, chose “junior high school education” and left a contact number. Soon, the phone of the staff called.

“The official requirement is that college degree or above can apply for the examination. If the degree is not enough, we can help make up the student status.” The staff gave such a reply.

So, what is supplementary enrollment?

The staff replied: “it is to make up the student status through the internal channels of the organization, which can be directly made up into a bachelor’s degree, and then directly test the senior family education instructor.”

In order to prove that people with low academic qualifications can also successfully sign up, the staff sent reporters screenshots of two registration forms. The reporter found that the “educational background” column of the two applicants is: junior high school. In the “major” column, one is “custom sofa cover”, while the column “with or without professional experience” is: “if husband and wife are angry, I often persuade them to make peace”.

After comparing several institutions, the reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com found that the vast majority of institutions that provide family education refer to the registration of tutors for the examination have basically no requirements for the qualifications of candidates. Even if there are requirements, they only exist literally - family education refers to the registration of tutors, which is almost “zero threshold”.

“Family education refers to the proposal of tutors, which is actually a compromise,” said Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences. The state pays more and more attention to family education. Especially after the promulgation of the family education promotion law, “taking children according to law” has become a necessity, but few colleges and universities in China have majors to train family education talents. When there is a gap between demand and supply, the compromise of cultivating family education refers to tutors appears.

No matter whether it is an expedient measure or not, only from the logical inference, the person who can be called “referring to the mentor” should have higher professional knowledge, professional skills, professional training and professional quality than the instructed. However, it is found from the simple “personal experience” of the reporter of China Youth Daily · zhongqing.com that not all candidates have this “professional” characteristic.

“Real question” before the exam ≈ “real” question?

In fact, the problem of “low starting point” is easy to solve, as long as you are willing to learn. Those who sign up for the tutor exam should be “willing to learn”. However, when the applicants sign up with good wishes, they don’t get real growth.

LU Hong (a pseudonym) from Henan Province used to do “one-to-one” counseling in a training institution. With the governance of Discipline Training by the “double reduction” policy, LU Hong is facing a career change. After analyzing her strengths and weaknesses, she turned her attention to the tutor of family education.

“After working for several years, I really met strange children. I found that children with high parental cooperation are usually ‘easy to take’. I also have practical experience and want to have a try.” Said LV Hong.

So LV Hong reported her name.

However, after paying the money, LV Hong found that the training was not as rich as expected: before the start, the training institution would provide four-day online recording and broadcasting courses. When the exam was coming, the institution would send a document with questions on it. “Although the staff will not say that these are the original questions, they will say that as long as they carefully review these questions, 90% of people will pass the exam.” Said LV Hong.

The reporter of China Youth Daily · China Youth Network contacted many people who took the exam and mentioned a similar set of questions.

It seems to have become the “prescribed action” of the examination institution to issue “question papers” or “simulated real questions” before the examination. A number of interviewees told the reporter of Zhongqing daily · zhongqing.com that these “real questions” almost included all the questions of the exam.

“As long as you carefully watch it several times, you can almost pass the exam. As for the training, whether you have seen it or not, how much you have seen, and whether you have mastered the knowledge, no one cares. After I found these ‘greasy’, I thought it was completely a fraud. When I remembered that the staff mentioned ‘full refund’ when signing the contract, so I didn’t want to learn it.” LV Hong said, however, the attitude of the staff was very angry when they really wanted a refund